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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK

"Do you call a 'bread roll' a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? And are you sitting or sat at this computer? The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our society's continuity and change, our local history and our day-to-day lives. Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK, aimed at A-Level English students across the UK, captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century" - The British Library